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- From: andrew@cubetech.com
- Subject: Re: NeXTColor Printer -- MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT !!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.110638.11310@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov9.135749.19322@ms.uky.edu> <1992Nov9.174925.18580@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Nov09.203001.142075@lexmark.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:06:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov09.203001.142075@lexmark.com> songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:
- >Finally, understand that a printed document will never look like
- >it does on the screen. Color is a very finnicky business. Colors
- >look different under different lights and calibrating a printer
- >actually comes down to calibrating for a specific "light style."
- >A printed page will look different under flourscent and incandescent
- >and natural light. Additionally, different combinations of inks
- >(in the case of printers) and phosphours (in the case of monitors)
- >will give output devices different color gamuts. As a result, it is
- >completely within the realm of possibility for one device to produce
- >a color that cannot be produced on another.
- >
- >In general, it's trickey.
-
- Well, actually, the biggest reason what you see on the screen varies
- so much from the printer is that the NeXT monitors or so damn HOT! On
- the average they are about 9800K!! Pull out the color panel. Display
- pure red...it's orange! Go for pure blue...you can't reproduce that
- color with CMYK inks. Go for cyan...it's aqua...bordering on
- flourescent aqua. You can't print that either.
-
-
- andrew
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